Smoking pipe



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SMOKING PIPE Filed Aug. 29, 1947 2 Sheets-Sheet? 7 /6 9 J JR m INVENTOR. WARREN w/L L IA Msolv ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 13, 1953 UNITED STATES FATENT OFFICE SMOKING PIPE Warren Williamson, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Application August 29, 1947, Serial No. 771,305

3 Claims. (01. 131216) This invention relate to pipes for tobacco smoking.

An object of the invention is to provide pipes for tobacco smoking in which the pipe stem is made in portions at angles with continguous openings, so as to locate the mouthpiece at a certain angle and distance away from the pipe bowl, the turns in the pipe stem are so arranged as to provide for unobstructed drawing of the smoke, but cool the smoke as well as block the passage of heavier injurious substances such as tobacco tar and tobacco juice, which latter are caused to flow back to the bowl and may burn on in fumes, or be otherwise discharged, without reaching the mouthpiece.

I am aware that some changes may be made in the general arrangements and combinations of the several devices and parts, as well as in the details of the construction thereof without departing from the scope of the present invention as set forth in the following specification, and as defined in the following claims; hence I do not limit my invention to the exact arrangements and combinations of the said device and parts as described in the said specification, nor do I confine myself to the exact details of the construction of the said parts as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, which will be made manifest in the following detailed description, reference is had to the accompanying drawings for the illustrative embodiments of the invention wherein:

Fig. l is a side view of a pipe with a stem made in accordance with my invention, with the smoke passages shown in dotted lines.

Fig. 2 is a plan View of the same.

Fig. 3 is an end view of the same.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of another embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 5 is a side view of the pipe including the pipe stem shown in Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a side view of another embodiment of the invention in a pipe stem.

Fig. 7 is a. plan view of the pipe including the pipe stem shown in Fig. 6.

Fig. 8 is an end view of the pipe including the pipe stem shown in Figs. 6 and '7.

The invention in general is carried out by constructing a pipe stem which is turned at various portions in such a manner as to form pipe stem sections at corners or joints which are preferably at 45 mitre, and so that each turn or section of the pipe stem i in a plane at right angles to the axis of the next preceding stem section or portion, in other words, each following section lies radially in a desired direction with respect to the axis of the preceding section. In other words the included angle at each turn of the pipe stem is It was found that this particular arrangement best serves the aforedescribed objects of the invention.

In order to locate the bowl at a relative distance and position as desired with respect to the mouthpiece, the invention may be carried out in various forms with a number of such contiguous sections or portions.

In the form shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the bowl I of the pipe has a comparatively short usual stem section 2. From this short stem section 2 extends an offset stem section 3 at right angles to the axis of the stem section 2. If a circle is drawn with the axis of the stem section 2 as its center, as shown in Fig. 3, so as to form a plane at right angles to the axis of said stem section 2, then this second stem section 3 may be arranged at any desired radial angle, for instance at the radial angle shown, somewhat oblique toward one side of the bowl, yet located in the plane at right angles to the axis of the first stem section 2. A mouth section 4 extends from the end of the second or connecting section 3 and is at right angles to the axis of said second section 3, and away from the bowl in a desired direction radially with respect to the second section 3. On the end of this mouth section 4 is the usual mouthpiece 5. The smoke passages through the sections and mouthpiece are shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1.

In the modified form shown in Figs. 4 and 5 the short stem section 2 extends from the bowl I, but the sections in this form are in substantially the same horizontal plane, namely the mouthpiece is offset from the bowl 1 laterally to one side in steps determined by respective connecting sections. The first connecting section -6 extends at right angles to the axis of the stem 2 in a substantially horizontal plane with respect to the bottom of the bowl I. A longitudinal section 1 extends from the end of the first connecting section 6 and in the same plane. From the end of the longitudinal section 1 extends another connecting section 8 at right angles to the axis of the longitudinal section 1 as well as to the axis of the first stem section 2. From the outer end of the second connecting section 8 extends the mouthpiece section 9 with the mouthpiece 5 at its outer end all in substantially the same plane, but offset to one side of the pipe bowl I.-

In the modified form shown in Figs. 6, 7 and 8, the arrangement and spacing of the stem of the pipe is still more remote and it allows the holding of the pipe entirely out of the area of the face of the user or smoker. In this form the short stem section 2 extends straight as in the previous devices, but each of the subsequent stem sections ll, [2, l3 and M has a different axis with respect: to the bowl I, although each is in a plane at right angles to the axis of the next preceding section and extends radially from said axis in such plane, one of such planes nearest to the bowl being indicated by a circle of broken lines in Fig. 8, however the radial direction of the stem sections in each successive plane is different so as to conduct the smoke :ith various breaks and corners to the mouth piece 5, substantially offset from the bowl I. In this form the intermediate sections H and [3 are the connecting sections;-

It is to be noted that the joint between the sections is formed at substantially a 45 mitre as indicated on joining. lines 16,. and. forms a corner i! which efiec'tively operates to abruptly change the direction of the smoke and causes the depositing of solid particles or moisture on the walls of the smoke passages shown, for example, in dotted lines in Fig. 1.

The invention herein described provides for a variety of arrangements according to the desire of the smoker to space the pipe bowl at selected angles away from the face, without rendering the pipe unduly heavy or cumbersome. While the various sections of the pipe stem follow one another at right angles to the respective preceding sections, nevertheless they are generally in directions away from the pipe bowl, and thereby operate as spacers. In other words it could be expressed that the pipe stem is made up of substantially longitudinal sections" leading away from the pipe bowl for a distant spacing, and connecting sections at right angles between the longitudinal sections for offsetting the mouthpiece to one side or the other side substantially laterally with respect of the pipe bowl. Various combinations may be made by varying the inter-relation between the longitudinal and lateral sections of the pipe stem.

I claim:

1. In a smoking pipe of the character described, a pipe bowl, a mouthpiece member, a stem formed of a series of stem sections extended from the bottom portion of the bowl to said mouthpiece member, said series of stem sections between said bowl and said mouthpiece member being fixedly connected together and including longitudinal sections in generally parallel planes ofiset laterally with respect to one another and leading generally from the bowl toward the mouthpiece member, the first longitudinal section being connected to the pipe bowl and at least another longitudinal section being laterally offset with respect to said bowl, and at least one transverse connecting section between adjacent ends of the respective longitudinal sections being at such an angle that the axis of the connecting section intersects the spaced axes of the adjacent longitudinal sections.

2. In a smoking pipe of the character described, a pipe bowl, a stem formed: of a series of fixedly united stem sections, a mouthpiece on the outermost stem section of said series, said series including a short longitudinal stem section extended from the bottom portion of the bowl, a second stem section extended from said short stemsection and being tilted laterally with. respect to the vertical axis of the bowl, and another longitudinal section extended from said second stem section and offset laterally with respect to said short stem section and with respect to the: vertical axis of the pipe'bowl, said sections being joined at the respective meeting, ends thereof. to form corners to: receive.- solid and moist. particles.

3. In a smoking pipe of the character described, a. pipe bowl, a stem formed of a series of. fixedly united stem sections, a mouthpiece on the outermost stem section of said series, said series including a short longitudinal stem section extended from the bottom portion of the bowl, 2. second stem section extending from said short stem section and being tilted laterally with respect to the vertical axis of the bowl, and another longitudinal section extended from said second stem section and offset laterally with respect to said short longitudinal stem section and with respect to the vertical axis of the pipe bowl, said sections being joined at the respective meeting ends thereof to form. corners to receive solid and moist particles, the axis of said. short longitudinal stem section and said longitudinal section being generally in parallel planes and said longitudinal section. being substantially in about the plane of the top surface of the bowl, and the longitudinal axis of said longitudinal section lying in a plane adjacent to the exterior surface of the bowl.

WARREN WILLIAMSON.

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